Drumgornan
Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 153.3 ha
- 379 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 16,768 m² (1.68 ha, 4.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgornan, from 120 m² to 327,904 m² (32.79 ha, 81.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumgornan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560710
28 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DETACHED ONE AND A HALF STOREY TYPE DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTED PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460419
29 Jun 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DETACHED ONE AND A HALF STOREY TYPE DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTED PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350936
21 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW DWELLING HOUSE (B) DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM / PERCOLATION AERA (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151876
4 Aug 2021Conditional
REPOSITIONING OF ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 19/51949 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151564
17 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH EXTENSION, A NEW SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951949
27 Nov 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH EXTENSION, (2) A NEW SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951838
8 Mar 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ACCESS ROAD, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750344
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumgornan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgornan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgornan.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1433 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumgornan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgornan
- Area
- 1,532,775 m² (153.28 ha, 378.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donegal electoral division: 4,179 people in 1,617 households; 71% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydevitt Beg, Drumroosk, Gortlosky, Haugh, Mullans, Newtowndrumgornan, Ogherbeg, Winterhill
- Placenames
- Drumgornan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.